Craig Douglas, Stanley Black & Decker’s treasurer, is renowned for his financial acumen. Whether it was a novel floating-rate convertible bond in 2007, the reopening of the bond market at the height ...

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If there is one word to describe RBC Capital Markets’ equity-linked business in 2014 it is momentum. The fledging platform has poached clients from bulge-bracket firms and increased issuance by 260% ...

One Geneva-based group, SwissChain Holding SA, offers a clear window into how this transformation is unfolding.

Our firm, FP Transitions, keeps a database on thousands of advisory firms, looking at data such as valuations. Our recent look into this data revealed a powerful truth: The most valuable firms are ...

A recent analysis of the FP Transitions database—backed by over 17,000 firm valuations—revealed a powerful truth: the most valuable financial advisory firms are those that invest in next-generation ...

Barx (Barclays automated real-time execution) clients can now trade equity structured notes online as well as access secondary market prices, trade ideas and research, says Barclays Capital. “As the ...

Analysis: For some time now, financial punters have prescribed passive investment as the low-cost panacea for investors bloodied by years of underwhelming active management. S&P data indicates that ...